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Editorial: Illinois Legislature keeps spending more money
Lawmakers got closer to passing a $35.4 billion state budget on Thursday, one day before they're scheduled to head home. By the numbers: The 2013-14 operating budget will include about $2 billion more in spending than this year's budget and will still...
Tags: Personal Income, Interior Policy, John J Cullerton, Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice
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Democrats forge $35 billion state budget
— The Democrats who run state government forged an estimated $35 billion spending plan Tuesday that would keep education funding flat, pay for promised state worker raises and cut programs for seniors. As the state budget headed toward approval...
Tags: Executive Branch, Illinois Governor, Substance Abuse, Matt Murphy, Taxation
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Illinois 70 mph highway speed limit bill sent to governor
Clout StreetThe Illinois House today sent Gov. Pat Quinn legislation that would raise the speed limit on non-urban interstate highways from 65 mph to 70 mph. Supporters said increasing the limit would put Illinois in line with neighboring states and help the...Tags: Regional Authority, Government, Executive Branch, Transportation Accidents, Illinois Governor
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Truckload of concerns after lawmakers OK higher speed limit
Illinois drivers soon could roll along rural interstates at 70 mph after House lawmakers Wednesday approved a higher speed limit on nonurban highways despite safety concerns and a possible veto showdown with the governor. Supporters said the higher...
Tags: Government, Executive Branch, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Illinois Governor, Transportation Accidents
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CTA boss wavers on Ventra at hearing
Tribune reporterCTA President Forrest Claypool on Monday appeared to alternate between playing the roles of an impartial party as well as a pitchman for the new Ventra transit card's controversial prepaid debit-account program. Claypool told state officials at a public...Tags: Personal Income, Rahm Emanuel, First Data Corporation, Deborah Mell, Metra
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Move to lower mandatory school age faces 'uphill climb'
To address a devastating pattern of elementary-grade absenteeism in Chicago Public Schools and across the state, Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Gov. Pat Quinn have thrown their support behind legislation to lower Illinois' compulsory attendance age from 7 to 6 or...
Tags: Rahm Emanuel, Maywood (Cook, Illinois), Illinois Governor, Pat Quinn, Chicago Teachers Union
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Illinois House approves doctor licensing fee hike
Clout StreetDoctors will be asked to pay more in fees under a bill House lawmakers sent to Gov. Pat Quinn on Thursday, with the money earmarked to speed up the licensing process and strengthen efforts to discipline bad physicians. The governor has vowed to sign the...Tags: Government, Interior Policy, Health and Safety at School, Executive Branch, General Practitioners
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Quinn blames lawmakers for inaction on pension reform
Clout StreetSPRINGFIELD — Gov. Pat Quinn chastised lawmakers for failing to pass cost-cutting changes to the government worker retirement system, then dangled the possibility that he'd drop his long-running opposition to a major gambling expansion to get a...Tags: Dawn Clark Netsch, Values, Executive Branch, Illinois Governor, Religion and Belief
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Quinn minimum wage hike could be tough sell
Clout StreetIt won’t be easy for Democrat Gov. Pat Quinn to find enough lawmakers to vote for the minimum wage increase, what with business groups pronouncing it a “job killer.” But the best news for Quinn is that key Democratic lawmakers...Tags: Government, Business, Executive Branch, Illinois Governor, Restaurant and Catering Industry
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Quinn loses Hail Mary on pension reform
Clout StreetSPRINGFIELD --- The Illinois House adjourned this afternoon without even voting on Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn's desperation pension reform plan. Quinn threw his support behind a bill that would set up a commission to decide how to fix Illinois'...Tags: Government, Interior Policy, Executive Branch, Illinois Governor, Pat Quinn
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New General Assembly sworn in as full plate looms
Clout StreetSPRINGFIELD --- A new Illinois General Assembly was sworn in today, and after the ceremony and celebrations are over, lawmakers will face a full plate of unresolved issues in the month ahead. Democrats now have veto-proof majorities in both the House and...Tags: Executive Branch, Political Corruption, Parties and Movements, Finance, Crime, Law and Justice
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CPS head targets K-8 'dropout pipeline'
Chicago Public Schools CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett vowed Monday to move forcefully to address the city's crisis in K-8 truancy and absenteeism, declaring: "We must work to shut down the dropout pipeline." She said that "while the district has not fully...Tags: Government, Executive Branch, U.S. House Committee on Rules, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Mayor
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